Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...social abstraction and on the other hand to give eloquence and stature to flesh that is at times all too solid. The author seems to ask, when and how can the sons of the men who carved a country out of the frontier with the strength of their hands adjust to the business suit and all the other impersonal appurtenances of a white collar middle class world. The leitmotif of loss of contact with the land resounds again and again until it crashes out in the final crescendo climax of the play. On one level Arthur Miller's play...
Thus Herschell, and most of America's gifted children--in order to survive in high school communities where the premium is put on social acceptance--and the scholar is only compensating for his big feet or his bad looks-generally adjust to that norm. The very educational system entrusted with the responsibility to train Herschell Podge and his fel- lows too often succeeds in converting intellectual interest into dance committees, campus clean up campaigns, school legislatures, and high school fraternities. Herschell is wasted...
...Management will adjust its schedule so that all employees wishing to go deer hunting will be allowed time...
...upon us, but barring an unnatural boom (like another war), it will arrive soon. Unless it is met with more intelligence and imagination than the Administration has shown in dealing with the less serious recession problem, the consequences will be severe indeed. The failure to adjust to affluence may bring the oft-heralded demise of capitalism...
...responsible for avoiding any other planes that might be in the area. Investigators assume that the TWA plane, climbing to avoid the bad weather, came up underneath the DC-7 and hit it. Neither pilot, had he seen what was happening, would have been able to adjust course in time to avert the accident...